Since I am currently doing an import of addresses in Colorado, I'll throw my two cents in.
If you are looking at https://data.colorado.gov, the website has a tabbed view. Look in the "About" tab, and see if there is a "Licensing and Attribution" section. If so, there may or may not be a "License" that the data is under. If you do not see a license, assume it is copyrighted. You can still reach out to the dataset owner for clarification (their information should also be in the "About" tab). For example, I'm using https://data.colorado.gov/State/Statewide-Aggregate-Addresses-in-Colorado-2019-Pub/n7je-akky for my address import (but preferring county data sources, when available and permissible). In this case the license was "Public Domain", which I verified was "copyright public domain" instead of just being available to the public domain, so just be certain I reached out to the dataset owner. In short, yes, some data is permissible, but do not assume that it is all permissible. On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 07:30 -0600, Mike Thompson wrote: > I am working on a plan to import some data from the US State of > Colorado. I have reached out to the appropriate officials in the > state government asking for permission, or at least a statement that > the data is in the public domain. I used the "Letter 1 Template" > found here[0]. The response I have received is: > > "Basically it's public data, so you should be able to do what you > want with it." > > It seems that they are not allowed to say anything else. > > Is this sufficient? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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